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    Case Study: How Cloud Native Powered E-Commerce Success at Adidas

    E-commerce moves fast, but perhaps never more so than in the world of sneakers and sportswear. Sneakerheads crave the latest designs and colorways; the staid functionality of gymwear has long ago give...

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    Are We Heading for Peak Cloud Native? It’s All a Matter of Time

    If you want to get an overview of the Cloud Native space, it’s worth checking out the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s landscape map. Make sure you give yourself some time though, as it can take a ...

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    eBPF Cloud Native Tools: An Overview of Falco, Inspektor Gadget, Hubble, and Cilium

    The Extended Berkeley Packet Filter—eBPF to its friends— is changing everything. Before eBPF came along, kernel tracing, heavy network control, or some forms of observability were clunky or impossible...

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    WTF?! Container Solutions Marries EngineerBetter

    Container Solutions celebrated Valentine’s Day by getting hitched. We’re delighted to announce we have acquired 100% of EngineerBetter Ltd., a U.K. consultancy focused on the use of Cloud Native techn...

    Fire Drills: a Guide to Preparing for Your Next Incident

    Supporting Cloud Native applications is no easy task. Through offering Customer Reliability Engineering (CRE) support—essentially, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) as a service—for multiple customer...

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    WTF Is Cloud Native Transformation?

    If you either joined our webinar in November, or have read our book Cloud Native Transformation, you have already met Jenny, our hero. Jenny is a middle manager at a fictitious mid-size firm, WealthGr...

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    WTF Is Design Thinking?

    Put simply, Design Thinking is a method for getting solutions to problems that really work for the people you’re designing for. Applying it gives you more focus on the real problem, more understanding...

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    War and Peace and Cloud Native: the Battle Between IT and Business

    I recently read Mark Schwartz’s book War and Peace and IT, an excellent treatise on why companies struggle so much with delivering IT capabilities. What Schwartz writes about organisational dynamics o...

    WTF Is Continuous Improvement?

    When you’re offered a Covid-19 vaccine this year, which sort would you like? One that’s been through animal and human trials, received government approval, is made on a standardised production line, a...